Accounts Receivable Manager
-Oversaw the creation of shared receivable services for the baby infant nutrition and the Medical nutrition divisions of Nutricia.
-I created and implemented a comprehensive billing, credit and collection policies and related procedures for the department.
-Set up vendor’s accounts on system as the company had taken back in-house the handling of accounts receivable from an outside third party.
-Prepared credit reports and verified credit information.
-Reviewed Credit applications with trade references, bank, Experian and D&B.
-Prepared daily, weekly and monthly reports.
-Performed internal audits to improve dept results.
-Talked with Sales reps on a daily basis concerning issues with customers.
-Supervised all billing, data input and cash application through End of Month, End of Quarter and End of Year General Ledger closes, with related reporting and analysis.
-Mailed invoices and statements (customers who were not set up via EDI) and followed up with customer plus Created debit / Credit Memo when needed.
-Processed intercompany invoicing on a monthly basis.
-Reviewed accounts put on hold daily with Sales and senior management.
-Created an efficient AR team overseeing all activity through month end close and reporting
Initiated new account set up accepted EDI invoicing.
-Alerted Sales Reps to problems relating to their respective accounts.
-Point person for quarterly and annual audits as regards billing, cash, revenue, and collections.
Credit Controller / Accounts Receivable Manager
-Created and implemented a comprehensive billing, credit and collection policy and related procedures for the receivables dept. (SOX and credit terms manual).
-Created an efficient AR team overseeing all activity through month end close and reporting.
-Supervised a staff of three (FTE) and 3 (PT) collectors and 10 salesmen on the road.
-Managed Customer credit files and kept all records.
-Prepared credit reports for finance meetings with Sales and finance directors.
-Helped in the hiring and training of new staff.
-Affectively dealt with problem accounts by personally calling into meet Payable managers and get to the root of the problem holding/ preventing payment of outstanding invoices.
-Helped implement SAP as we changed over from BPCCS, I was an integral member of the Sap implementation team focusing on the receivables and Sales.
-Posted Cash and Cheques to customer accounts
Initiated Archiving all Pod’s onto discs for easy retrieval and storage.
-Point person for quarterly and annual audits as regards billing, cash, revenue, and collections.